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PRUNE

5 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What PRUNE Means

  1. verb: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of“dress the plants in the garden”
  2. verb: weed out unwanted or unnecessary things“We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet”
  3. noun: dried plum

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PRUNE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 R1 U1 N1 E1.

Words Made From The Letters In PRUNE

28 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

4 letter words (4)

3 letter words (15)

2 letter words (9)

Longer Words Containing PRUNE

PRUNE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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